I'm too slow when it comes to finishing things. I've got two animations to finish.. this month? Can I make that promise? Who knows.
I've kind of fleshed this idea out, finally. It's not perfect. From here on I could fix everything like shrinkage of characters and nonconsistent faces. Make some awesome backgrounds.. figure out the colors, probably taking a page from the people that made Le Royaume or The Reward.
I've also got some sound design classes at coursera.org starting tomorrow. Hopefully I'll make some music and sounds that'll be moderately okay.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Lighting Week 1: Batties, deckers, and methuselah syndrome.
I find myself bouncing back and forth between moderately good and horribly bad paintings. After the previous painting I moved onto the hobbit one, and I struggled with the color until I dropped that to black and white and worked from there.. and then that too I gave up on.
Then I started working on this bladerunner shot after reading James Gurney's Color and Light half-way through and taking notes. By the end I was pleasantly surprised with what I had, but oh boy.. I found it kind of troublesome managing and keeping track of all the cool grays.
After that one I moved onto the next reference fairly quickly. I chose a simple one because I wasted a bit of time and needed to finish these 5. lol.. This one turned out less than awesome. It feels so flat.. and it's definitely unfinished.. but I don't know where to go next with it.
Then I started working on this bladerunner shot after reading James Gurney's Color and Light half-way through and taking notes. By the end I was pleasantly surprised with what I had, but oh boy.. I found it kind of troublesome managing and keeping track of all the cool grays.
After that one I moved onto the next reference fairly quickly. I chose a simple one because I wasted a bit of time and needed to finish these 5. lol.. This one turned out less than awesome. It feels so flat.. and it's definitely unfinished.. but I don't know where to go next with it.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Week 1: Lighting
Here's my third lighting study and an unfinished fourth that I'm struggling on.
I'm pleased with the first one from Inglourious Basterds. The scene in general is extremely interesting with the big circle window and the red dress. Got a little lazy toward the end and decided not to do the desk or the mirror frame. lol
This second, unfinished, one is from the Hobbit.. aaand I started it in color but was struggling so much that I decided to just drop it to black and white and work on it that way. And I know it's just a lighting study, but I also don't like that I lost all of the angles and flattened the image. lol Will he get frustrated and throw his painting into the recycling bin or push forward and finish it like a man? Tune in next time to learn the answers to these questions and more!
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Effin' Light.
Sara Gross on Google+ posted an awesome list of suggested weekly art assignments and I'm extremely excited to do them.
Week 1 is to study lighting by doing 5 paintings from movies or shows with good lighting. Frankly, I need this.. I'm not very good with light, form, or color.. and even though I bought both James Gurney books, Color and Light and Imaginative Realism, I haven't taken the time to really go over them and practice what it teaches.
Here are the first two.. both of them are from Inglourious Basterds.
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